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Grab your scarves and gloves, metro Detroit, if you haven't already. It's going to be a cold one Friday morning.

The deep freeze that settled in across the region was forecast to usher in single-digit temperatures overnight, including lows of 5 degrees for Detroit and around zero for distant suburbs, according to the National Weather Service's regional office in White Lake Township.

Then, brace yourself for more snow, likely starting late Friday afternoon, forecasters said, as the temperature will climb to around 17. The snow will continue overnight, with heaviest accumulation in late evening to early Saturday morning, with a forecast for metro Detroit of 3 to 6 inches, said staff meterologist Alex Manion.

Temps will climb a bit through Saturday afternoon, when the high is to reach the mid-30s.

"I wouldn't be surprised to see the snow transition to a wintry mix (sleet and freezing rain) to a drizzle or light rain by Saturday afternoon," Manion said. Driving could be hazardous, he said.

Enjoy the heat wave, such as it is, because then we'll take another roller coaster down to single digits and below. By Monday morning at sunrise, bundle up against a predicted low of about 4 degrees -- with a windchill of as low as -15 degrees; and the same for Tuesday morning.

"We are below normal right now," Manion said. On Friday, the high of 17 will be significantly below the normal high in the mid-30s, he said.

Manion said a polar vortex -- a sagging of arctic air -- is reaching Michigan. But despite the cold, we won't be breaking any weather records. Detroit's record lows for mid-December are all temperatures below zero, he said..